Has anyone else experienced a painfully slow internet connection when updating to Ventura? I open up any browser and it takes forever to go to any webpage. Mail is painfully slow to update any any app that requires an internet connection is the same. Unfortunately I don't have a backup of my laptop as it is new but I'm considering just putting everything on an external hard drive and rolling back to Monterey.
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Ventura Update on M1 Max, Slow Internet
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Hello! I've got this exact issue. In my case, I've found the root cause: it was one older VPN software I had forgotten to disable. I've entered System Preferences > VPN and disabled it. Then, Ventura went fast for the internet. I hope it helps. I've also disabled Kaspersky VPN, which was also causing slowness in previous Monterey BTW.
I had to do 2 downloads of Ventura to my M1 MacBook Air as the first one I did through software update and it was over 13.74 GBs.. I suspected a problem but I let it do its thing and went out with the wife and when I returned four hours later I had an error message that the download failed. So I tried a 2nd time and it was 6.37 GBs and took about a hour and half on a slow DSL line that does about 14 Mbps. What I suspected is the server doubled the actually download.
The thing was it around 5.47 GBs for my 2017 5K iMac 27" so I knew there was issue but I just let it go and went out for the afternoon with the wife. Edit I waited to do the download on the iMac until the MacBook Air had finished the corrected download.
Internet speeds have been and always be painful on a DSL connection and I found nothing different from this OS to the prior OS.
The thing was it around 5.47 GBs for my 2017 5K iMac 27" so I knew there was issue but I just let it go and went out for the afternoon with the wife. Edit I waited to do the download on the iMac until the MacBook Air had finished the corrected download.
Internet speeds have been and always be painful on a DSL connection and I found nothing different from this OS to the prior OS.
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Thanks for the tip! I've tried that and have the same issue, what's interesting is kaspersky for me requests full disk access however it's already toggled to have full disk access. I'm probably going to go back to Monterey if the folks at the genius bar are unable to diagnose the issue.
Big shoutout to Calisunshine901. I'd been bashing my head against this all day since the update, wondering why other devices were fine but my MacBook was struggling. Without that message I would never have checked Kaspersky but now after re-enabling full disk access I've got normal browsing speeds and a big push of mail come through. Thank you!
Thank you very much! I can confirm that re-enabling full disk access for the Kaspersky System Extension fixed my connection speed issues. So if you use Kaspersky, open the protection centre and follow the instructions they provide to allow full disk access.
I'm not sure continuing to use Kaspersky is a good idea. It's on the FCC's list of being a risk to US national security. Just my 2c
In my case issue was directly related to Kaspersky antivirus software. Fix for me was to reinstalled it but also to Disable the Filters it adds to your internet. Check more details on some of the posts here: https://forum.kaspersky.com/topic/k...ade-to-macos-13-ventura-28823/#comment-118086
I completely uninstalled Kaspersky for now and everything is back to normal. I do need to reinstall at some point and hope that it all works out.
I'm using MacBook Pro 2021 M1. After upgrading OS to Ventura I was facing dead slow internet. After so many tries, I enabled "Show legacy networks and options" which is inside System Setting -> Wifi -> Click on Details on your selected Wifi -> Show legacy network and options. And I just enabled it and magically my internet started working faster.
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Interesting the speeds from router out to the world are much higher than the Max to the world.
